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President Donald Trump addresses the Israeli American Council national summit at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida, on Dec. 7, 2019.

Column: President Trump fights anti-Semitism one day, fuels it the next

December 13, 2019 at 1:47 p.m.

Could President Donald Trump be charged under his own executive order? I had to ask myself that after he signed an executive order to crack down on anti-Semitism on college...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. peeks through a curtain before speaking at a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Dec. 5, 2019.

Column: With Kamala Harris out, many Democrats dread a loss of diversity. But will black voters care?

December 10, 2019 at 4:35 p.m.

After Sen. Kamala Harris abruptly dropped out of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, the famously inclusive party wasn't looking very inclusive anymore. Without being too cheeky, you...

Attorney General William Barr, left, awards Deputy Richard Hassna, from the Alameda County sheriff's office in California, at a ceremony in Washington on Dec. 3, 2019.

Column: ‘Respect’ in policing is a two-way street, Attorney General Barr

December 6, 2019 at 4:46 p.m.

Remember when candidate Donald Trump sought black votes by asking somewhat sarcastically, "What do you have to lose?" One answer now comes from President Trump's chosen attorney general: How about...

A Black Panther rally is held Dec. 31, 1969, at Civic Center Plaza (later named the Richard J. Daley Center) less than a month after the killing of Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark at Hampton's apartment on the West Side.

Column: 50 years later, it’s easier to see how the Black Panther raid changed racial politics

October 28, 2024 at 3:05 p.m.

A lot has changed in the 50 years since the predawn Chicago police raid that left two Illinois Black Panther Party leaders dead and four other members wounded.

Former Vice President Joe Biden at the Iowa Democratic Party's Liberty and Justice dinner in Des Moines on Nov. 1, 2019.

Column: Are Joe Biden’s gaffes tied to stuttering? I know from experience what that feels like.

November 26, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

Joe Biden and I share a problem that's not always easy to talk about. In fact, that's the problem. We stutter. That makes a lot of things hard to talk...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to voters on Nov. 2, 2019, at a campaign stop in Vinton, Iowa.

Column: Elizabeth Warren put the brakes on ‘Medicare for All’ for a good reason: She listened to what people actually want

November 19, 2019 at 3:38 p.m.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a person of uncommon intelligence. But like all of us mortals, she sometimes makes mistakes. Take, for example, the Massachusetts Democrat's embarrassing retreat on "Medicare for...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, left, attends the 2019 Obama Foundation Summit at the Kaplan Institute at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago on Oct. 29, 2019.

Column: Can Deval Patrick’s long-shot bid ease Democrats’ anxieties?

November 15, 2019 at 3:41 p.m.

Having followed Deval Patrick's storybook rise from childhood poverty on Chicago's South Side to become the second black governor in U.S. history, I have a nagging question about his announcement...

Actress Cynthia Erivo plays Harriet Tubman in "Harriet," a biopic about the famed abolitionist.

Column: What black Americans can learn from black immigrants as the casting for ‘Harriet’ sparks debate about opportunity

November 12, 2019 at 3:37 p.m.

Are black British actors black enough to play black Americans? That prickly question has buzzed through black conversations and Twitter feeds since at least the casting of David Oyelowo —...

In the autumn following the "Summer of Love," a young person takes part in a gathering at North Avenue Beach on Oct. 8, 1967, in Chicago.

Column: OK, boomers, welcome to the other side of the generation gap

November 8, 2019 at 2:28 p.m.

Back in 1965, only a couple of years after the term "baby boomer" caught on as a label for the generation born in the wake of World War II, one...

President Donald Trump covers his face from TV lights as he speaks before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Nov. 2, 2019.

Column: Beware the paranoid style of Donald Trump’s politics

November 5, 2019 at 2:17 p.m.

I know it's not easy to sort out the alleged conspiracies and counter-conspiracies involved in the House impeachment inquiry, but hang in there. Most important in my humble view is...

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